There are a variety of "UA" and "User Agent" bugs in bugzilla that might be
relevant here.
This sounds like a significant issue for web server administrators. My
experience here is limited, so I do not have any strong feelings excep that
we want a workable solution to the larger community.
Daniel Bratell wrote:
> Copying the message to the netlib group where people who knows live.
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Mozilla version number reported
> Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 02:38:30 -0400
> From: David Coppit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Organization: Another Netscape Collabra Server User
> Newsgroups: netscape.public.mozilla.mail-news
>
> Netscape 6.1 (and I assume Mozilla) report version 0.9 to the web server
> on a HTTP request. As a result, some sites may refuse to display. For
> example, surf to http://www.guinness.ie/
>
> Is this a known problem? Should Mozilla appear as a more "advanced" web
> browser? Or should we force the web site developers to distinguish
> Mozilla versions from Netscape versions? If it's the latter *can* they
> distinguish Mozilla from Netscape from the header info?
>
> David
